Thanks for your responses...
Why use more than one H1? Simple...2 areas of the page that are of
equal importance.
Why should it only be one? I understand the simplicity of focusing on
one area of each page and the impact that could have in search
results....but that that doesn't entirely relate to semantic
structure. Is it not entirely plausible/acceptable to have 2 equally
important area of the page?
I feel the logo is very important. It is, in theory, the first thing
people notice on a site and the single most important bit of branding.
I understand also that a H1 is important to search engines
indexing....but I'm yet to see/read/hear of any solid information that
suggests Google (in particular) degrade the rank of your site based on
the existence of more than one H1.
Quoting Yuval Ararat <yara...@gmail.com>:
Its not specified any where that a single H1 is the right approach. SEO guys
have found that google search engine tends to read the H1 as the main
subject and decided to punish any page with more then one. the punishment is
not severe so not every one of the major sites obey.
In HTML 5 there is a huge discussion about the header
tag<and">http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/header.html#header>and the
existance of h1 inside of it. my take is that this will not catch
and only google and bing indexing will set the way they want to structure of
pages to be.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:45 PM, <c...@fagandesign.com.au> wrote:
Hi all, have come across something that I'm sure has come up before...
Have created a new site with the logo wrapped in a H1 tag.
The title of each page is also a H1.
Just got word back from an outsourced SEO expert who says it's probably
better if there was only one H1 on each page.
Does anyone know of any online resources backing up this theory?
I don't think it's a huge SEO concern at all but the signature on my return
email doesn't have "SEO expert" on it.
Many thanks.
Christian Fagan
Fagan Design
fagandesign.com.au
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